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[reymondos]

Big day today. I saw the car in colour. This is only the first coat which will be flattened before the 'real' paint. The boot, engine and interior are finished. I love it. It is a great colour, very 50's in my eyes, and it will look great with all the chrome bits and the light beige interior.

















I also polished the original 12 60 coil,





and painted the whitewall on the spare wheel. Looks pretty good for a 30 year old Yokohama cross-ply.

[reymondos]

The car is nearing completion now.







The interior is almost completely finished.

Next up is the fitment of carb/exhaust manifold and the exhaust itself.

Then some electrics, distributor, timing, plug leads, vaccum cables, fitting a battery, fluids and hopefully she will be a runner soon.

[surfblue63]

Can't wait to see the finished car.

Hve you any plans to come over to the UK with it?

[reymondos]

I had plans, but my wife is pregnant and will give birth this summer, so I will probably not come over.

[Bungle]

looking great

[surfblue63]

I had plans, but my wife is pregnant and will give birth this summer, so I will probably not come over.

Thought you were busy with the restoration, you'll be even busier with the new addition.

[reymondos]

The car is almost finished!! The engine runs, but I have not been out for a drive yet.







While restoring the Beach Car, an opportunity came up to buy a genuine Olympic Airways airport Authi Mini Van.

Almost all of the 44 vans and pickups owned by Olympic were scrapped when the company moved to the new airport. This is one of the 2 survivors.



Its my next resto...

[998dave]

That looks amazing - good work!

[Teapot]

This is amazing. Congrats.



*It was some time before I realised there aren't going to be any doors*

[RobWill116]

I'm absolutely loving it! I think I'm gonna have to come live in Greece to increase my chances of buying rare finds!

Loving the beach mini/hornet, will hopefully see it in a magazine feature sometime soon!

[89mini-boy]

Can't wait to see the finished car.

Hve you any plans to come over to the UK with it?

+1 & the whole mini population in uk

Ashley

Edited by 89mini-boy, 15 October 2012 - 05:45 AM.

[reymondos]

Apart from some minor niggles the Beach Car is finished.

I still haven't got any good photos of it yet.




The Olympic Mini is also progressing rapidly.

[RobWill116]

Get another project thread open for the olympic van and get some pics up! :) it looking fantastic so far

[mattprinn1997]

If you keep going like this, you could start a museum of rare minis!

[sonikk4]

Well done for rescuing both cars. I cannot imagine nipping down to my local upholstery place and asking them to re wicker my seats.